Cedillo’s share of the vote now stands 49.37%, according to updated figures released this afternoon by the L.A. County Registrar/Recorder-County Clerk. That’s just a smidge lower than where Cedillo was after the most recent update. However, he needs at least 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff against second place vote getter Joe Bray-Ali.

Cedillo, who at one point looked to have narrowly avoided a runoff based on preliminary results, has seen his share fall during the last two updates by the county-clerk. More unaccounted votes still need to be tabulated.

If Cedillo remains below 50% after all ballots are processed, then he and Bray-Ali would face off in the May 16 general election.

The First Council District includes all or portions of Angeleno Heights, Cypress Park, Echo Park, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Lincoln Heights and Mount Washington.

Update: The county clerk said the final 9,000 outstanding ballots from across the county will be counted and the voting results updated one final time on Monday, March 20. The results are expected to be certified – or made official – the following day.

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This is great. It isn’t easy to unseat an incumbent and the fact that Gil Cedillo might face a runoff shows that people in his district recognize that he just isn’t the right fit for their district and doesn’t understand the needs of an urban neighborhood.. Cedillo really should consider moving to the far suburbs where his general take on things is more suited.

By Far Suburbs you mean East Los? You sound like the typical Newcomer. All ready to tell us what suits us best. And all about hipster change. Gentrification is what you’re talking about. And Bike Lanes Joe is all about Gentrification. CD1 was specifically created through redistricting to compensate for lack of Latino representation on the City Council. Bray-Ali would take it away and give it to the very ones who are transforming our area into Hipster Havens.

@Margarito. Seriously? Think about it for a second, and you might consider you have it backwards. If there’s one person who’s a catalyst for “transforming our area into Hipster Havens,” it’s Gil Cedillo, any developer’s best friend. If you like monstrosities like Geoff Palmer’s Orsini and Da Vinci and Visconti and on and on and on (Palmer’s a big donor), and think out-of-scale development should be granted zoning variances and pushed thru, then by all means, vote for Gil!

Ex-Councilmember Ed Reyes put in those developments, NOT Councilmember cedillo. Ed Reyes put in 400 rental units on Taylor yard!! Councilmember Cedillo stopped the “road diet” that Joe the bike guy wanted and the community did NOT want.

Everything Bike Lanes Joe has ever done hass campaign oriented even before he announced for CD1. Tricycle Joe insults that one bill. (He has authored nearly 30 bills.) Which meant driver’s licenses for the undocumented. You insult Chicanos, the Chicano Movement, and our representatives. That is the real story here.

I’m a little confused as to why “bike lanes” are being painted as a thing only for white people. So the assumption here is that Chicanos don’t deserve or want bike lanes? So you speak for the entire Chicano movement? Because I have many younger Chicano friends who love to stay healthy and ride bikes. Maybe this is the older generation trying to impose their opinions and will upon the younger generation again.

America is fat as hell, 1/3rd of us have diabetes. Bike lanes are not a bad thing. Get off your fat butt, ride a bike, and stop trying to oppress young people and shame us for not wanting to die of heart failure when we’re 45 like so many others.

If you want to talk racial prejudices, look no further than Gil Cedillo, who outed himself in his racially-coded “trendy, hippy, hipster proposal and agenda” remarks condemning his opponent. The disdain for his constituents is palpable.

OK no, racism against whites is nonexistent, that was not racially coded… Though I don’t agree with Gil and I think he is a money hungry devil. I believe he made that remark to make him seem like he is a man for the people. He is nothing but a liar

Hi, can you post a link to information about Joe Bray Ali being employed by a developer? I have never heard that, and am unable on my own to find any such information. You sound certain. Provide your source? Thanks.

Joe worked for about a year for a small project developer in the SGV for about a year. This was before he opened his bike shop 8 years ago and part of the reason he understands the zoning code so well.

I drive a car and am not much of s bicycle rider, but my hats go off to this trying to make this city more bike friendly. Joe is planning for future generations ( I don’t have kids) and for a city far less dependent on automobiles. We need more forward thinkers. My vote is with Joe!

Thank you. I don’t ride a bike much these days either, now that I have a little one. But I don’t know how anyone can live in these neighborhoods (kids or not) and think our neighborhood streets are safe or inviting places. We can do better.

“Cedillo, a longtime state legislator, had to get through a runoff when he won the seat in 2013. In that year’s runoff against Jose Gardea, Cedillo only got 51.95 percent of the vote. So he has never run strong in the 1st district.”

Cedillo has never been a compelling candidate. Casting him as a favorite of long-time residents (versus “newcomers”) doesn’t really hold water, according to these numbers.

I’m newly impressed with Cedillo following yesterday’s PLUM meeting where he made the right call for not just his district but for all of Los Angeles by standing up against the Bel-Air and Cheviot Hills NIMBY’s by pushing to take away barriers against people building accessory units/granny flats in their backyards.

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